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quite open, made it look quite yellow. 

 The leaves were not vet come out. 



In fome meaddws the grafs was already 

 grown up pretty high : bat it is to be ob- 

 fervcd, that thefe meadows were marthy, 

 and that no cattle had been on them this 

 year. Thefe meadows are mown twice 3 

 year, viz. in May, and the end of Augiift, 

 or beginning of Augujl, old ftyle. I faw 

 fome meadows of this kind to-day, in 

 which I law grafs which was now almoil 

 fit to be mown -, and many meadows in 

 Sweden ruve not fuch grafs at the proper 

 time of mowing, as thefe had now •, thefe 

 meadows lay in mar flies and vallies, where 

 the Sun had very great power : the grafs 

 confifted merely of Cy peru s -grafs or Carcx* 



The wild Prwie-trees were now every 

 where in flower; they grow here and there 

 in the woods, but commonly near marfhes 

 and in wet ground ; they are diilinguifliable 

 by their white flowers : the fruit when 

 ripe is eatable. 



The Cor 7111s Florida, or Dogwood, grows 

 in the forefts, on hills, on plains, in val- 

 lies, in marmes* and near rivulets. I can- 

 not therefore fay, which is its native foil ; 

 however, it feems that in a low but not a 

 wet foil it fucceeds beff. ; it was now 

 adorned with its great fnowy Invohcra,. 



L 2 which 



